I laughed at the Lorax, "You poor stupid guy!
You never can tell what some people will buy."
--Dr. Seuss

Friday, February 10, 2017

Lee Lorenz: Oil Futures

A fortune teller sees into the future in this original New Yorker artwork from 1969 by the unpredictableLee Lorenz. What she foresees is an oil strike in the Antarctic. Whether there truly are vast oil reserves in the Antarctic is anybody's guess even today, but even if there are they would be prohibitively expensive to extract and there are currently international treaties forbidding it.

"Then I see this company making a fabulous oil strike in the Antarctic,and if the S.E.C. should ask, you never heard of me."Lee Lorenz, original art, The New Yorker, March 29, 1969, page 28

"Then I see this company making a fabulous oil strike in the Antarctic,and if the S.E.C. should ask, you never heard of me."

"Then I see this company making a fabulous oil strike in the Antarctic,and if the S.E.C. should ask, you never heard of me."

Lee Lorenz, original art, The New Yorker, March 29, 1969, page 28

Note: Thank goodness there's a blog out there that's looking to publish yet more original work by Lee Lorenz and the New Yorker cartoonists he once edited. Now if only I could remember the name of it...